Summary
Ilja Iljf, Jevgenij Petrov: The Golden Calf
Ostap Bender is a con artist "with style", a great combinator who emerges from every situation as a winner, and his lifelong dream is to make five hundred thousand, travel to Rio de Janeiro and live comfortably there. In the company of Balaganov and Panjikovski, also fraudsters, but with much less style and talent, and the "cured" owner of the criminal dossier, taxi driver Kozljevic, he sets off for Chernomorsk to get his sweetheart... In Chernomorsk, on the other hand, lives modestly a self-effacing civil servant, but in fact a secret millionaire (also a fraudster!) Aleksandar Ivanovich Korejko... Along with this richly illustrated sequel to the novel "Twelve Chairs" (1928), a classic of satirical literature, an exceptional Russian literary duo, the afterword "Remembrance of Iljf" from the pen of Petrov was published.
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